King Lear Critics

Mack Maynard (Patience in adversity)

Cavell (Progress to redemption)

Maxwell (Religion)

Danby (Following WW2)

King James

Foakes (R+G)

McLuskie (Feminist view)

Adleman (Feminist view)

Kiernan Ryan (Patriarchy)

Foakes (Ending)

Foakes (Nihilism)

Fly (No closure)

Mack Maynard (Auschwitz)

Holloway (1960s)

Foakes (Pagan Gods)

Foakes (Violence)

Jonas A. Barish (Kent)

Danby (Cordelia as a martyr)

Bradley (Edmund)

Foakes (Power, property and inheritance)

Booth (Fool)

Anthony Curtis (Fool)

Foakes (Gloucester's blindness)

Cavell (Edgar's view of Gloucester)

Harley Baker (Edgar)

Foakes (The storm)

Khan (Cordelia)

Marxist - (The play is often seen to reflect a transition from an old order to a new one)

Montaigne (Stupidity)

Montaigne (Link to fool)

Montaigne (Kent)

Machiavelli